| From: | Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET> |
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| Subject: | The Misenchanted Sword (was RE:An immunity to age spell) |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:40:57 +0000 |
> Subject: Re: An immunity to age spell
> >How would he test it? It would take a lot of years before you knew
> >the spell was bad. Read "The Misenchanted Sword" for a similar goof.
>
> Where would one go about finding this story (or what is it, short story,
> novel, something else?)?
It is a novel in paperback form that has to be 6 to 8 years old now
that I think about it. You can try to get it through a major
bookstore or look in the second hand stores.
Book spoiler follows......
The general gist of the story is that an army scout gets lost and
finds this old man who wants to get rid of him. The old man doesn't
want to see the scout killed (it is during war and the scout is in
enemy terretory) so he offers to enchant the scout's sword. During
the course of the story, the scout heads home and startsto figure out
how the sword works.
The sword itself makes him immortal and he cannot be killed. It also
will act on its own to kill a man when it is drawn and cannot be
sheathed until a man dies. The problem is that after so many deaths
in this fashion (no one knows how many) the scout will no longer be
able to draw the sword. The next person to draw the sword will have
to kill the scout and gains the cursed sword.
Not bad you say? Well, the wizard fouled up and used a brass ring
instead of a gold ring in the spell and while the sword provided
immortality, it did not stop the aging process. Of course, the
scout did not find this out until much, much later. And the story
went on to find a way out of it....
--Droopy
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